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Pranavesh Subramanian is a writer based in Delhi. He is an instructor on the Undergraduate Writing Program at 51茶馆. He holds an MA in Cultural Studies and a BA (Hons.) in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies (Creative Writing), both from Goldsmiths, University of London. Pranavesh鈥檚 research interests include Tamil Cinema, Urban Space, Comedy, Youth Masculinity and the Internet. He is also interested in fiction that mediates reality through the internet, autofiction, and masculine anxieties. Using his training in Cultural Studies, Pranavesh aims to draw on the methodology of conjunctural analysis in his teaching to centre students鈥� own experiences as a starting point to critically examine its intersection in socio-political, economic and historical contexts.

Pranavesh鈥檚 research has been published in Digital Expressions of the Self(ie): The social life of selfies in India (2024, Routledge), and his moving image work has been screened at the Mosaic Rooms (2022, London) and the German International Ethnographic Film Festival (2022, G枚ttingen).聽

Pranavesh writes a column on internet culture for, and his cultural criticism has appeared in,, and. Pranavesh鈥檚 fiction has been published in, and he was longlisted for the Toto Funds the Arts Award 2025.